5. Milkman realizes the ghost isn’t asking Pilate to sing (a song); rather the ghost is saying his wife’s name.

6. Because Pilate doesn’t have a navel, Milkman figures that it is possible ghosts can exist.

7. Milkman realizes that Grace Long has kept his watch, but he decides that “a watch is not worth worrying about.”

8. Guitar tries to kill Milkman because he believes Milkman has recovered the gold and is keeping it for himself. Guitar doesn’t believe Milkman’s explanation because, as he knows, Milkman never helped anyone in his life.

9. Milkman didn’t really believe Hagar would succeed in killing him because of her “weapons” and because of a “complete lack of cunning or intelligence even of conviction, in her attacks.”

10. The reference to the “red man’s house” in the children’s song referred to the Indian heritage of the Byrds.